Re: [Council] Community Awards: final results
 

Hi to all. I'm a very new member of this forum and not in any position to comment on whether somebody deserved / not deserved a device, and I don't intend to. However, I think there's one point that's universal and can be made anyhow:

Being a judge in your own cause will always be perceived, at best, as walking on a thin ice, whether the decisions made are just or not.

If, as some claim here, the council members deserve a device due to their function, the rewards should be provided separately to the Community Awards programme - if the community supports that. Just one idea for the future I guess, as everything already happened and can not be undone.

So keep calm and keep waiting for pr 1.3 - which, if comes any day soon, could sweeten the bitterness of this thread :)

Re: [Council] Community Awards: final results
 

I'll try to answer explicitly to your questions. Above post was intentionally more generic.

Absolutely not. In a first round of votes, personally made by each member of the Council, it's normal that we didn't agree 100%. So we needed more rounds of voting, revisions on each candidate's merits and finally, reach a consensus.

That's rude and unnecessary.

We decided not to publish individual votes or details of discussion to avoid hurting those that didn't get a device and trying to avoid all these kind of nonsense arguments,

I don't know what is your level of involvement in the community. Of course it's difficult to know everything said on mailing list, IRC and TMO.

I hope I have answered to your questions. Let me know if you want to know anything else.

Re: [Council] Community Awards: final results
 

The question is simple, how ethic it was to put your names in list while you were judges and not only to put but all judges got the device, except the one who wasn't involved. I still can't see the straight answer to "It's not right to judge and put your names in award list at the same time"

Re: [Council] Community Awards: final results
 

That concern was raised during the constitution of the Community Awards, precisely by other councillors such as Estel (see previous logs provided by Woody) and SD69. Nobody else, outside the Council, even took the time to give their opinions about it.

As I have already explained 2 posts above, the other possibility (being out of decision about other candidates and Woody being the only judge) was also proposed and finally discarded. Again, no one else even bothered to comment.

And finally, submissions of councillors were publicly made through mailing list and, nobody commented!!

I'm sorry if you didn't notice during the two or three weeks of discussion around the CA or during the three weeks of collecting submissions. Your concerns are perfectly valid but you should have raised them before.

Re: [Council] Community Awards: final results
 

Ok, once again the same answers i answered to:
1) as it was self submitting i didn't check all members, as i have life
2) i didn't check all the data about it on TMO as it was said not to use thread but just self submit on maillist. And i didn't think you would do such a thing
3)I read about you asking Quim, but you know you are council with responsibility and power and i don't think you should ask those things, otherwise what's the point of your existence, those things should be handled by you or community, i'm pretty sure he just didn't want to be involved that much (i might be wrong)
4) I STILL DO NOT SEE why after it was hard to decide how to vote with you on list there was no option — NOT TO PARTICIPATE, is it that free device is stronger than council responsibility ?

Re: [Council] Community Awards: final results
 

You can't force anyone to be interested in anything. But I see mostly newbies getting upset with this, and I'm pointing out that what they express would actually work against them.

They were elected, not appointed. The community clearly wants these 5 people to represent them, period. There can be no "shouldn't have been elected" for whatever reason. If you don't like it, simply vote for someone else next time, or even run yourself.

Re: [Council] Community Awards: final results
 

1. Councilors where voted in BEFORE the announcement of the CA. This implies they joined to help steer the community as oppose to rig the CA.

2. The rules were laid out for about 1 month before the judging took place. Everyone had time to complain. IRC was on fire for about a week with angry discussions.

3. The councilors have already proven themselves to be Maemo obsessed nuts with a reputable background, this alone makes a very compelling reason for them to be winning a CA. Biased? Probably, however YOU ALL already chose them as the the Maemo community champions.

4. While you may brand some of the names on the list as trolls, nobodies and Harmattan dissenters, they fulfilled the criteria required to win. That is keeping maemo.org alive.

5. This was quite specifically NOT a coding competition, it was not a popularity contest and it certainly was not a developers device program.

6. To win you had to be a person that has helped nurture the community. This possibly includes (but not limited to); Helping on TMO, hanging out on IRC, providing actual USEFUL bug reports/feedback, solving problems, maintaining the wiki, generally greasing the wheels of Maemo.org.


Do not forget that this batch of loot is a very small fraction of the prizes. Most of it is going to the 3 coding competitions in which EVERYONE will be able to vote.

Re: [Council] Community Awards: final results
 

You have made your disagreement clear, which I respect. I won't continue commenting at this point unless you have new questions.

Re: [Council] Community Awards: final results
 

Is vote for leaving those devices for you or giving to others is option?

Re: [Council] Community Awards: final results
 

Sure, there you are:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84533&page=3
See, e.g., #25 and #26. I do not have the time right now to dissect the whole thread, but generally, when you re-read
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84533
you will find lots of discussion and arguments.

Other references are:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84322
http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/ in general
or
http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/mae...ay/thread.html
or
http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/mae...il/005134.html ff. in particular
plus
http://wiki.maemo.org/Summer%2712_Device_Program
http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Awards

So, this is just the very rough summary of where the community awards and the overall device seeding program in general got discussed. There may be even more references but as said I do not have the time right now for an in-depth research.